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The Infrastructurist has a three part collection (part three is coming soon) of defaced street signs.  Some are beyond clever/hilarious, others are why bother.

One of my college buddies has a video of him and his friends turning a street sign from “Weaver Rd.” into “Weezer Rd.”  This, of course, was probably when we were in 9th grade or so and The Blue Album had just come out.

[via reddit]

First the AP accuses him of copyright infringement on the Obama poster, now Shepard Fairey is in jail for tagging.

Shepard Fairey was arrested Friday night on his way to the Institute of Contemporary Art for a kickoff event for his first solo exhibition, called “Supply and Demand.”

Two warrants were issued for Fairey on Jan. 24 after police determined he’d tagged property in two locations with graffiti based on the Andre the Giant street art campaign from his early career, Officer James Kenneally said. One of the locations was the railroad trestle by the landmark Boston University bridge over the Charles River, police said.

Fairey, 38, of Los Angeles, is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Brighton District Court, said Jake Wark, a spokesman for the Suffolk District Attorney. Wark said Fairey would also be arraigned on a default warrant related to a separate graffiti case in the Roxbury section of Boston.

Fairey has spent the last two weeks in the Boston area installing the ICA exhibit and creating outdoor art, including a 20-by-50 foot banner on the side of City Hall, according to a statement issued Saturday by the museum.

The museum said Fairey was released a few hours after his arrest. Boston police confirmed Fairey had been released, but did not know exactly when or the amount of his bail.

Many of the Boston artworks have already shown up on Flikr.  (Photo courtesy of Sabeth718)

Jaw Dropping. It’s really all I can think of. Street artist Blu has pulled off this dazzling animation called “Muto.” His creation hops out of the wall and bounces along walls, city streets, etc. I don’t know much about the artist other than what’s on his website, but this video speaks volumes about his/her skills.

The video was made in Bueno Aires and Baden, Germany. Reminds me of these old animated videos I used to watch as a kid where some old dude’s head would slowly morph into a baby or like the head would open up and something would crawl out and it would turn into something else and it would keep morphing. I can’t remember who that artist was, but all his sketches were really short and totally blew my mind as a seven year old. Anyone have an inkling what I’m talking about?